View From the Beauty Closet: Best of Beauty Madness

What you're viewing here are the thousands (yes,* thousands*) of bags we received during the testing process for our annual Best of Beauty awards. At any given time, our closets were quite literally overflowing with products. The other editorial assistant, Alix, and I would spend hours each day opening these bags, organizing their contents, tripping over said contents, and (the best part) testing product after product. Our staff individually tested over 3,000 of them to find the best of the best, and all the winners were *finally *announced this week. Be sure to grab the October Best of Beauty issue of Allure when it hits newsstands on September 24. I mean, I didn't open thousands of bags for nothing!